Wall fixture support



Nov. 15, 1932. J. A. HOEGGER 1,887,641

WALL FIXTURE SUPPORT Filed 001;. 11. 1929 Patented Nov. 15, 1932 UNITED STATES WALL FIXTURE" sorrow? Application filed October 11, 1929. Serial No; 398,857. l

My invention relates to improvements in supports for wall fixtures or attachments. My invention is particularly applicable to walls of bath rooms and other places where it is desirable to fasten towel racks, lamp brackets or, in fact, anything which is or desired to be fastened to a wall.

It is a common experience that attachments or supports of this kind are quite apt to work loose, and it is also difficult to have them applied in the exact positions required. In attempting to meet this situation it has sometimes been the practice to anchor hollow studs or members in the wall so that their open-ends would be flush with the wall surface and then attach the wall fixtures to such studs. In carrying out this idea it has been the practice to plug the hollow studs, but in actual use it is found that the masons or other workmen will knock out or displace the plugs and the hollow studs become filled with plaster or other stufi so that the fixtures are with difficulty applied. My invention, therefore, is intended to obviate the above diificulty and produce a fixture support which can be easily anchored in and applied to a wall and in which the projecting member or members to which the fixture is to be attached are closed and are rigid on the ties so that there can be no difficulty in applying the extraneous fixture to the fixed supporting member.

My invention also comprises the method of building fimure supports into a wall so that the supports shall became a part of the wall and remain permanently and securely in their positions as originally fixed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a broken front elevation illustrating one application of my invention to a wall; Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section of the structure with a fixture attached;

Fig. 3 is a broken detail in perspective illustrating the application of the invention; and

Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing a slight modification or, rather, variant form of the anchoring means.

In the drawing 10 represents the body of a wall, which may be concrete, for example, 11

the cement or scratch coat on the wall and 12 the finishing face, which in the present instance is tiling. An anchor member 13, which is shown as a fiat member but which may be of other shapes, is anchored in the part 11 of the wall and this carries a projecting stud 14 at each end, as illustrated, but there may be any desired number of these studs. Instead of being on the same horizontal level, as in Fig. 2, abranch anchor 13' may be extended in any direction and a stud 14 supported by it.

The stud 14 projects outward beyond the face of the tiles 12 and has a flange 15 which lies fiat against a tile so that in laying the supporting membersthe tie 13 is placed at the desired level and the stud 14 will project through the front part ofthe wall at the desired spaced distance. The tiles 12 can then be laid between the flanges 15 and the part 11, which will now be plastic, so that the tiles can benicely fitted and the other tiled part of the wall can be built up as usual. The stud 14 is closed at its. outer end and is rigid on the member 13. The outer part projects beyond the face of the wall and I have shown it with an inwardly tapered part 16 which enters the hollow part 17 of a bracket, and the spaced brackets carry a towel rack member 18. I have not described in detail the connection between the stud 14 and the bracket 17 because this is a structure covered by my U. S. Patent No. 1,636,- 364, dated July 20, 1927, but as far as the outer part of the stud 14 is concerned it can be of other shapes and adapted to be secured in other ways to a wall fixture, but in any event it should be closed to prevent any clogging during the laying of the wall and to enable the wall work to be carried on without interference and without impairing the efiiciency of the supporting structure which I have described.

I claim:

1. A wall fixture support comprising a stud having one end embedded in a wall and the other end extending outwardly beyond the front face of the wall and having means for attaching a wall fixture thereto, and a tie member embedded in the wall attached to the inner end of the stud and projecting beyond the sides of the stud.

2. A wall fixture support comprising a plurality of spaced studs each having one end embedded in a wall and the other end extending outwardly beyond the front face .of the wall and having means forattaching a wall fixturethereto, and a single tie member embedded in the wall and attached to and connecting the studs to each other.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this 8th day of October, 1929.

JOSEPH A. HOEGGER. 

